BIDFF '16

BUCHAREST INTERNATIONAL DANCE FILM FESTIVAL '16

Bucharest International Dance Film Festival (BIDFF) is the only Romanian festival dedicated to the dance film. Last year we had our succesfull debut with a 54 dance films marathon from all over the world, of whom we awarded 4 short films that challenged the limits of the genre and that intrigued the jury. The second edition of the festival brings to Bucharest the two most awarded documentary dance films: Mr. Gaga (d: Tomer Heymann), which captures the internal laboratory of on of the most important contemporary choreographers - Ohad Naharin, alongside with his company, Batsheva Dance Company and Rare Birds (d: T.M. Rives) which captures the backstage of one of the most daring stagings of A Swan Lake, directed by Alexander Ekman, at the Norvegian National Opera House from Oslo.

Among the international guests of the festival there are: the renowned austrian choreographer Chris Haring, awarded with the Golden Lion in the frame of Biennale di Venezia, the multimedia artist Claudia Hart (SUA), the directors Samuel Retortillo, Alex Pachon (Spania) and T.M. Rives (SUA). The showcase of the festival has its opening on the 9th of November with an international conference - Intermedia Body - a concept developed by Mihaela Kavdanska, an event co-organized by Platforma Avmotional with the participation of the multimedia artists Antoni Rayzhekov and Gerhard Funk from Austria, alongside with romanian artists like: Catalin Cretu, Cinty Ionescu, Raluca Nestor Oancea, Cristian Iordache and Simona Deaconescu. Besides the competing and non-competing, this year BIDFF organizes at the Galateca Gallery the international Digital Body Exhibition.

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY:

BEST DIGITAL INSTALLATION:

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OFFICIAL COMPETITION

"HELENA" by Nadav Heyman"WEREWOLF HEART" by Christian Weber

THE DIGITAL BODY EXHIBITION

"CRYSTAL FORMING ROBOTS ON OVERHEAD" by Christian Faubel"o.T." by M.Kardinal

SPECIAL MENTIONS

BIDFF (Bucharest International Dance Film Festival) is produced by Tangaj Dance Association and financed by AFCN - The Administration of The National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the position of The Administration of The National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for the way the results of the project can be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the financing beneficiary. BIDFF is a cultural project financed in the frame of The Cultural Program “Bucharest - The In-Visible City” by ARCUB – The Cultural Centre of Bucharest Municipality and The Bucharest Municipality. The hosts and partners of the festival are The National Centre for Dance Bucharest, The National University of Music Bucharest - Electroacoustic music and multimedia center, Galateca Gallery, the National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale” Bucharest, Control Club. The project is supported by The Romanian Cultural Institute, The Austrian Cultural Forum (The Austrian Embassy in Bucharest), the Embassy of Israel in Romania and the Embassy of Spain in Romania. The co-organizer of Intermedia Body is the Avmotional Association.